skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest” seems like just another way of describing "trickle-down economics" (or at least of describing the results of that strategy in western economies).

To be clear, you can do a lot worse than western economies have done over the last 50 years, but I agree with Friedman that we need to refocus our efforts so that the wealth-gap does not continue growing out of control. This, of course, does not have to mean doubling down on the welfare state, but as Friedman said: "cash assistance to only the most vulnerable and more investments in infrastructure that improve productivity and create good jobs." But the tricky part is to do this without unfairly rewarding/propping up anti-consumer monopolies. We need a new era of trust-busting!

My main measure for the long-term success of any economic theory is whether or not it causes a distribution of power across the middle class. If the middle class does not grow in size (relative to the whole population) and in its percentage share in the total wealth/power then I don't think you have a very good system.
I've seen it claimed that "big Wall Street" was on both sides of this. HFT firms that pay for access to RobinHood's data joined the run on GameStop based on movement on RobinHood adding significant initial dollars to those invested by the Reddit crowd. I don't know enough about this space to know if this is true/possible and my sources so far are "randos on the internet" so I'm not investing (har har har) in the idea, but I'm curious.
Good list, thank you. Having a look at them.
Just pretend you're still a kid.
> Honest question - it's obvious how you identify politically by all your posts here, but what has your comment got to do with the story?

If it's a false story, say it. If it's not - what exactly are you saying with your comment?

It seems like this should go without saying, but some news outlets have a better reputation for accuracy than others, and a story can be "true" in a technical sense while still being designed to further some agenda by omitting important context or facts.

I'd submit that understanding the biases and incentives of a publication are prerequisites to taking any of their content seriously. This is true of any outlet. This doesn't mean you discard outright their content, but you may view it through a more skeptical lens and seek out additional corroboration.
Not always, for example, Native American on reservations use the term Indian to refer to themselves, but outside this is becoming impolite in favour of Native American (including among some but not all Native Americans)[1][2]

See also the "Spastics Society", "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People", modern use of the n-word among black people, the use of "Negro" in "I have a Dream". Plenty of cases where a word in use by the group themselves becomes considered the impolite word.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88fVP2FWQ

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controver...
>kinda like a Smalltalk

This may be of interest if you find the idea of a live Tcl environment interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852484
Can you elaborate? Undo/redo in what contexts? What applications had undo/redo besides for editing things?
who are the next largest furniture manufacturers, and how does Ikea's durability/sustainability match up with them?

Ikea doesn't compete with hardwood furniture... They compete with Wayfair, target, and Walmart furniture. Ikea builds a significantly better product with the same materials IMO.
Wikipedia actually aims to use secondary or tertiary sources, because of the likely bias in primary (and to some extent, secondary) sources. Statements of fact shouldn’t be supported only be primary sources (publications), though they may be referenced for the historical context. However, quality control on something as big as Wikipedia is essentially impossible.
My motto is abstract at the third duplication. Before that you don't know if you're going to need it.
I don't even think it is that cheap. It is better than the quality you get at most furniture stores for a lower price.
I would be proud to get 3-4 hours of "real" work done a day, and I'd be very happy with any employee that did the same. I think most people in jobs that require some degree of problem-solving would agree.
Is it me or is Twitter making a lot of announcements this month?
Why are email subscriptions enabled by default?
On the other hand, we are presented with the raw data that makes the author of this article suspicious.
Here is the origin of the term:

http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png
Yes but that's far from enough, you need at least to study kernel ring and module and EV to go somewhere in math. No holomorphic functions, complex number quaternions... I'm also not sure on how you would do modern cosmology without studying connection, and differential geometry.
Right, but the lesson is that we ought to look after the stable boy, not that the invention of cars was a bad idea.
To expand on this - only running trustworthy programs is a far superior approach to this threat model than trying to somehow contain the damage from malicious code running on your machine. Siloing programs so you can run random crap feels like keeping the interior doors in your house locked to slow the progress of home invaders, while leaving the front door wide open - it's the wrong security boundary and it inconveniences you more than the attackers.

Meltdown should have been the nail in the coffin for this philosophy.
Why qualify BLM with communism? It’s very clearly a social movement, and while there are plenty of socialists and communists involved, they are not actively advocating for a communist state.
Nope! "Person with" was almost instantly rejected because it is insulting to an unremovable aspect of someone's existence, condemning someone as broken and lesser.

Here we have a too-common case of virtue chasers on the "same side" attacking each other because they have slightly different useless solutions to a problem. (The way you to show more respect to different people with differences is to show more respect in actions, not to play word games that the vast majority of affected people with effects don't care about.)
Sanofi to help produce 100M Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses
Depending on what the app does, developing a single native app is probably faster, more performant and easier than going with something like Xamarin, React Native, or a browser-based application wrapped in a native app.

That said, browser based apps make a lot of sense when your app is client-server application and don't need a lot of device-level functionality. This is especially true if your app needs to be a web app, mobile app and desktop app.
It is also clear that the SEC and FTC have been absent for the 21st century. As long as Wall Street calls the shots, the consumer is screwed.
Well, if I've understood correctly the author implies that if you don't really use your 'belief' in a practical sense, then it is crony. And the only benefit of irrational beliefs is to have a calculated social good impression.

I think ethics do not need to be 'truthy'. Sometimes science is used for an ethical argument, but often it is just a weapon to make a certain impression.
People care about other people not because they believe they we'll be rewarded for it. My great-grandmother was saved when Nazis occupied the city she lived in by her friend, who risked her life to do so. Was it because of "true" belief? Of course not. Or was it 'good impressions' - well nobody predicted at the time that the Nazis will lose. People have agency which stems from their life experience.

For example author worked at Palantir for seven years. Was it 'rational' to do so? Probably, such companies may be a great place to work and compensation would be nice. Would it be 'irrational' to decline job offer from such company on ethical grounds?

My point is that social reality is a fiction, point well-understood in certain traditions, but that fiction is what really our lives are, something as quite real as outcomes of scientific experiments. The absence of Truth as a bedrock of our experience may be problematic but it really opens up a horizon for change.
In particular the incentives are set up the same way in the US, and reproducibility is a problem in many fields.
Pedant's note: ITYM 'disenchanted'. To be disenfranchised is to be rendered unable to vote, or more broadly to be stripped of some otherwise customary access to a measure of power or agency. To be disenchanted is to lose a fascination with something, in typical usage as a response to some event or sequence of events that places the object of disenchantment in a new and less favorable light.
I remember reading in Gates of Fire [0] that the Spartans used heavy, round oak shields which suited there phalanx style of warfare.

The Persians (and their allies) used wicker shields that chose light weight over protection [1].

More recently, there was also a video floating around recently of how protesters were building Viking shield walls to protect themselves [2]

0 - https://amzn.to/39n23Jx
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparabara
2 - https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1291962889323020288?...
Please educate me, what is good? What I am missing out on?

I'm no stranger to Web tech, including JS on the browser and on the server side. It's hell compared to native App development using the native technologies.

I mean, it's so bad that the tutorials explaining the project setup phase can be hours long to follow. Scripts running in the background just to keep you in check and let you write more readable code that is no where as good as Swift(linter, transcompilers, packers oh god >:( ).

When Xcode misbehaves, I would clean the build folder or restart it and everything is back to normal.

It has been a few years since I did something for the web but please let me know if you have a magical IDE or a script or something that lets you do work on you actual code with no janitorial work. Did JS world become considerably better in the last years? Did npm swamp dried out?
Matt Levine has been covering these news for a couple days on his column, pretty interesting stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
I agree with you. Realtime is the key intrigue after the site itself, people will go off it when they realise it's not live.
I've never really understand what the price of a stock actually means. My simplified understanding of the stock market is that: 1) you have a company with a good idea, but the company does not have enough money to fund the idea, so they sell shares of the company to shareholders in exchange for capital 2) using this capital, the company grows and succeeds, and in return it pays portions of its profits back to its shareholders/investors in the form of dividends.

However, this all falls apart when the company never issues dividends, as many public companies have yet to ever do so. At this point, what does it matter how well the company does or what their profits are? If no dividends will ever be paid, then the stock price is irrelevant to the company as long as it issues no new shares (or if all remaining shares are held by the founder to retain majority voting rights). Whether the stock goes from $10 to $1,000 has no effect on the company, right? So what does the price mean at this point?
that was incredibly depressing to me. I think the manipulating of perspective when trying to make the fish you caught look bigger is harmless enough but manipulating perspective to push a political agenda is harmful and depressing. Any photo i see on a news outlet i now have to tease out what manipulations may exist.
They did do a share issue.
>Shorting 140% of the float no less. This falls entirely on these big funds.

This is the real issue. Everyone crying "Market manipulation! Call the SEC!" is right, except it's entirely Wall Street's doing. If anything good comes of this, we will see tighter regulation around short limits after this.
Yes, I am streaming buckets/blocks. That would be both on the evcxr side, right?

I was wondering if sending it as an MNG with loop=1 would work.
Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
Tech workers are choosing Milwaukee as their home. Here’s why
Flutter web is also becoming a viable option for web apps. I recently wrote a new app in Flutter and it works surprisingly well on the web, not just in native iOS and Android. It has some quirks though but I did not find anything serious.
That would be really easy to spot from the volume and order book.
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This isn't new. Here's John Kenneth Galbraith, writing about it in January 1987:

> There is insurance of bank deposits and the further certainty that any large corporation, if in danger, would be bailed out. Modern socialism, as I've elsewhere said, is when the corporate jets come down on National and Dulles airports.[a]

Who loses? Startups, small businesses, and the non-wealthy -- that is, the masses who cannot count on government largess to rescue them.

[a] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1987/01/the-192...
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SwiftUI and Previews sort-of address this now but it's not really ready yet, Swift compiler is still slow as molasses though and SwiftUI itself seems to bring the compiler to it's knees sometimes (on a brand new M1 Mini). It will flat out stop type checking anything that it deems to complex so you end changing code to appeal the compiler sometimes.
From the (limited) work I've done building React Native app's.. In most cases, the user is not going to be able to tell any difference from a native app.
There are facts, and then there are endless possible interpretations. A fact is an occurrence of something in space and time and can be verified through our 5 senses in an empirical manner, which is also the basis of modern science.

For example, it is a fact that I'm currently sitting on my chair, writing this comment. However, answering the question "why am I writing this comment?" is deeply subjective even for me to answer. And yet, many people would consider it a "fact" that I want to sound smart, for example.

The language that we use also affects our understanding and models our environment. The previous example can be a fact for all of us only because we have a shared view of "what a chair is" through culture and language.
> If I want to talk politics, I do it with my friends over a beer.

As a former Soviet citizen, this is particularly funny to me. Where the safest place for political discussion was at home, in the kitchen, with vodka and couple of good friends. It was part of Soviet culture back then.
Is Wikipedia really as bad as you are claiming? Can you give some examples?

It seems to me like a lot of the articles are accurate, and some of the check marked or featured articles are downright great.
Trickle down economics never worked and they knew it never would. Trickle up economics on the other hand would actually stimulate the economy. The top hoards while the bottom spends.
Are open source databases dead?
https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2021/01/26/opinion/us-cap...
What happens if the name you chose for yourself doesn't match the name a Twitter mob chose for you, and they attack people using the name you prefer?

Approximately 97% of "Latinx" people do not identify as "Latinx".
His agenda could also just be to advance his career, and make as much money with as little work as possible.
I mean, it is the Daily Mail. That’s kind of their whole thing, really. Agreed about the overarching tone of the article too, but again, that’s pretty standard for this publication. It’s why I avoid it (along with similar ones).
Yeah, same. When I work at corporate I work maybe 2-3 hours a day. When I work on my personal projects I work more than 8 a day. All that time sitting around procrastinating isn't necessary to do the actual work, it is just a waste of time (not for me, I got paid the same as when I put in effort, but for the world).

Edit: And just to clarify, I always got stellar performance reviews, quick promotions and large salary bumps. Corporate just doesn't demand much from you so it is hard to motivate yourself to do the job when nobody else performs well either. This includes Google etc, at least the teams I worked at there.
Go's approach seems a little more prone to user error. I know I've been tripped up by not explicitly adding a worker.
The argument is that since Javascript was the only programming language running in the browser, it was bound to be successful with the explosion of the web ; other arguments trying to justify why it succeed are not relevant.
Maybe because it's not an American company.
I don’t think it’s fair to disparage someone because they don’t share your political views. tptacek hasnt changed extremely; you just never knew.

I’ve been following him on Twitter for years; and I don’t believe he had changed at all - rather HN has had more political stories as the tech sector grew.
There is a reason there is a huge replication crisis in academia and it’s exactly what you say above. When folks in industry need to develop a product based a published paper more often then not it’s bullshit.
Was just thinking that if sci-hub were more like a git repo or wiki with editors and peer comments, it would add a great deal of transparency, and pretty much destroy this anti-pattern.

FOSS still has a lot of vulnerabilities, but it has also caught a lot of vulnerabilities and more people know what to look for. Perhaps this is why there is so much resistance to sci-hub, because there are so many compromised editors and academics who risk exposure?
I wanted to clarify as there are reports of employers asking for people's social media login credentials (to log in as them and archive/review old/private posts) as a condition for hiring.

I think that's insane and abusive.

Asking to see someone's public webpage isn't.
Honestly a lot of the furniture I've purchased one or two steps up from IKEA ended up being thoroughly underwhelming.

Based on my survey of what's available on the market, you have to go up nearly two orders of magnitude on price from IKEA to find solid wood furniture that feels like it has the craftsmanship to be an heirloom. And at those prices, it's not only more than most people can afford, it's more than most people who can are willing to spend.
> The way you to show more respect to different people with differences is to show more respect in actions, not to play word games that the vast majority of affected people with effects don't care about.

If anyone cared what the group being described thought about the terminology, no one would ever have tried to say "Latinx".

Like I said above, pure fashion.
You can buy it directly from Appsumo for 29$ - In our website the price is 149€ (normal price)
An unfortunate title seems to be redirecting what could be a productive discussion about stuff that's relevant to HN users:

Increasing barriers to entry for startups due to increased concentrations of cash/power stifling competition and innovation.

What changes in incentives improve the ability of startups to survive and thrive in an environment dominated by a few, cash-rich and competition-hating mega-corps?
> These platforms are seen as far right and extremist by a lot of people.

How did these people get so radicalized such that speech they don't like is "extremist"?

The same kind of people were saying its fine if you get deplatformed from Twitter, but now want to ostracize you for using the alternatives.
>So what does the price mean at this point?

What does the price of anything mean? You can look at things like fundamentals; EPS, P/E, etc. but ultimately it just comes down to what everyone else agrees on it being worth.
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The answer depends on how many customers you are willing to loss.

From a client perspective, everything is running well, you decide to change and it will cost them $X and Y (time) to match it. If there is not great value to the customer to change, then they might seek out a competitor.

Can you not make a compatibility library that lets them use the old interface on the new API?

Can you not run both systems, just not allow new customers on the old API?
But what if I don't want to become emotionally invested in the project? It would still be beneficial for the project if it were easy for me to submit bug reports (and maybe bug fixes) anyway.

Emotional investment is always an option for those who want it.

And a lower barrier to entry might even increase the chances of it happening anyway, even for those that started out thinking they didn't care much.
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I stopped talking about "socialism" online the day I understood the US and European definitions are completely different

Most people in Europe associate socialism with things like healthcare, paid vacations, &c.

Americans associate socialism with china, cuba, no freedom, gulags and famines...

Just the fact that Biden is called a "socialist" or part of the "radical left" (or even close to the left) by a non negligible portion of Americans tells you all you have to know. America/Biden's socialism is the equivalent of progressive conservatism in Europe
I run a whole-ass BBS, several chat servers, and a mailing list, and have personal websites in the wayback machine going back to the 90s. I am extremely online.
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Freedom of Speech in the US is a tenet and a philosophy.

What you're referring to is called a constitutional amendment, which also gets pulled under the umbrella term 'Freedom of Speech' because it's a practical implementation of the ideal.

This idea that it's defensible to actively work against the ideals of Freedom of Speech because of a constitutional amendment just doesn't fly. It would be akin to me claiming it isn't immoral to cheat on my spouse because there are laws requiring lawyers to avoid breaching the trust of their clients and therefore trust isn't anything people should consider unless they're lawyers.
I recently got into 3d printing, so it's a lot of stuff related to that lately. Before that I was learning how to sew so it was a sewing machine and stuff for that. I've been into light woodworking projects and metalwork as well and so there's often something coming for my workshop - Japanese saws, various bits of hardware, a tap and die set, welder, and so on. There's a constant flow of books and video games for myself and my kids.

Aside from hobbies I order stuff for my dog (medicated shampoos, supplements, dog treats) and lots of household stuff (air and water filters, light bulbs, lawn mower, irrigation system parts, plumbing and electrical parts).

For personal goods I get some clothing (shoes and socks), office supplies, batteries, vitamins, etc...

My car battery seems to be dying so today I'll ordered a charger that has a repair mode and if that doesn't work well enough I'll probably order a new car battery from them.

My purchases basically fall into three buckets. Grocery store items, clothing, and everything else is Amazon.
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This was briefly interesting and then I quickly started to see blatant racism, threats and rape accusations.
I'm curious what this means:

"...my team is pioneering React Native development..."

React Native has been around for 5 or so years.
Narcing on your neighbor for building an unpermitted shed because you feel like a chump for pulling permits when the reality is you both could have gotten away without permits is very different from narcing on somebody who is only getting away with it because they have some special status with the organization responsible for the rule.